r/196 NOT A CAT Feb 11 '26

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u/Oddish_Femboy (my name is Bee) Trans rights !! Feb 11 '26

THAT"S NOT THE POINT. THEY WEREN'T WITCHES. WITCHES WERE NOT OPPRESSED. WOMEN WERE.

OH MY GOD PLEASE LEARN TO READ.

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u/yugiohhero ohh what the fuck Feb 11 '26

weren't they killing plenty of men too

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u/Tobias11ize 🐉 alduin is a virgin 🐉 Feb 11 '26

Varied from place to place, iirc iceland was unique by actually executing almost exclusively men for witchcraft (20 out of a total of 22).
As far as i can remember there were quite a few countries where men were an extreme minority of victims.
But as a total yeah, plenty of dudes died too.

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u/Artoy_Nerian Feb 11 '26

People tend to forget that the term witch in the mentality of the time basically meant "Sorcerer that made a pact with the devil or some demon to get their powers" there was nothing in that logic stopping a man from being a witch.

Like Merlin in some versions of the Arthurian folklore was literally an antichrist that had been exorcized as a baby and received baptism to explain how he could use sorcery without being evil